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Yes postpone this month's Fragile UK tour as guitarist Steve Howe requires surgery
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Lordi are the face of a new recycling campaign in Sweden (yes, really!)
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"It takes me back to my schooldays." Peter Gabriel shares his latest single Till Your Mind Is Shining
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Fleetwood Mac star Lindsey Buckingham attacked in Santa Monica
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Latest Classic Rock News

Yes postpone this month's Fragile UK tour as guitarist Steve Howe requires surgery
By Jerry Ewing published
Yes's planned Fragile tour would have been the band's first English and Scottish tour dates for two years.

Lordi are the face of a new recycling campaign in Sweden (yes, really!)
By Merlin Alderslade published
In one of the strangest stories we've heard this year, Lordi will be the face of a new recycling campaign in Sweden

"It takes me back to my schooldays." Peter Gabriel shares his latest single Till Your Mind Is Shining
By Jerry Ewing published
Peter Gabriel is releasing a new single every full moon at midnight in the build-up to new studio album o\i.

Fleetwood Mac star Lindsey Buckingham attacked in Santa Monica
By Fraser Lewry published
According to law enforcement, the suspect threw an unknown substance at Buckingham before fleeing

Sub Pop announces details of what promises to be the best record on the label since its '90s heyday
By Paul Brannigan published
Get ready for the return of cult heroes Slift

Bruce Springsteen launches his fiercest attacks yet against "criminal clown" Donald Trump
By Paul Brannigan published
The Boss was not holding back at the opening night of his new Land of Hope and Dreams tour

Jethro Tull announce six-disc reissue of 1984 album Under Wraps
By Jerry Ewing published
Jethro Tull's Under Wraps: The Unwrapped Edition brings together the band's 1984 album and Ian Anderson's 1983 debut solo album, Walk Into Light
Latest Classic Rock Features

"We like going places where it's a challenge." How Queen helped tear down the Iron Curtain
By Mark Blake published
In July 1986, Queen became the first band to play a stadium show in the communist Eastern Bloc. Cue armed soldiers and genital-related insults

Tailgunner want to be the new Iron Maiden. Or the new Metallica. Or the new Judas Priest
By Dave Ling published
If you’re looking for some ‘leather, studs and bullet belts’ classic metal, get in Tailgunner's firing line

How Led Zeppelin seized control of the industry and became the biggest rock band on the planet
By Mark Blake published
Magic hexes, hotel robberies and cut-throat deals: Led Zeppelin band members and associates chronicle the heady days of 1972/73

How Red Hot Chili Peppers made By The Way, in their own words
By Paul Brannigan published
"It’s not some champagne and caviar rock star party for us"

Meet the band bringing true heavy metal back to Mexico - and trying to escape it
By Chris Chantler published
Jet Jaguar are one of their country's few old school heavy metal bands, but they're not planning on staying

Approved by Blondie, Iggy Pop and the Sex Pistols, The Molotovs are a ferocious generational voice
By Mark Beaumont published
After cutting their teeth in parks and at protests, scooter rallies and mod events, The Molotovs have now sold 10,000 tickets for their upcoming tour
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Latest Classic Rock Reviews

Kreator bring demons, wicker men and the most fire this side of Parkway Drive to stunning London show
By Matt Mills published
Supported by Nails, Exodus and Carcass, the German luminaries reach a new level of pageantry

Todd Rundgren delights some and confounds others on A Wizard, A True Star
By Classic Rock Magazine published
Aided by magic mushrooms and a newly built studio, Todd Rundgren sets out to chart "the chaotic musical element” in his head

Suzi Quatro refuses to dim the lights on 18th album Freedom
By Everett True published
Freedom is Suzi Quatro's third album in collaboration with son LR Tuckey

The Expanded Edition of Van Halen's 5150 is bigger but not necessarily better
By Hugh Fielder published
Exit Dave, enter Sammy, and Van Halen's first No.1 album

Opeth's Blackwater Park: A mesmerisingly brilliant prog-metal album’s quarter-century celebration
By Dan Peeke published
In which Steven Wilson helps Opeth emerge from the musky cocoon of their darker 90s albums with a wider and brighter sound

Melissa Auf der Maur's 90s rock memoir Even the Good Girls Will Cry is a frank, fearless and fabulously revelatory read
By Paul Brannigan published
You won't read a better '90s music biography than former Hole / Smashing Pumpkins bassist Melissa Auf der Maur's new memoir






